This blog may at times appear to be rather cynical, sometimes comical (hence the pen name Gun Shy Tourist), and often critical in its evaluation and reporting. It may also include my musings on "criminal" politicians, religious fanatics who seek to change the American way of life, as well as personal self defense, weaponry, and other firearms and military related topics. The readers should be warned that this blog does not follow the politically correct narrative.

The Maryland teenager secretly arrested by the FBI for allegedly conspiring with the woman from the Philadelphia suburbs known as Jihad Jane also spoke of a Columbine-style plot with a Pittsburgh-area friend in a jihadist chat room, according to sources and documents.

"I had a lot of thoughts about you today," Mohammed K. wrote to his Western Pennsylvania pen pal late last year. "About us both doing martyrdom operations together in my school. . . . It was like we both were in a big truck and had guns and we were shooting randomly at a huge crowd of kids."

Gunmen burst into a casino in Monterrey, Mexico Thursday and doused the premises with a flammable liquid, starting a fire that killed at least 53 people.

You will notice Caldi, that they used gas, not guns. Secondly if they had used guns, they would most likely be guns that were sold to your corrupt military and 'law enforcement' officers, who put them into the hands of the cartels.

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Mexican President Felipe Calderon charged Friday that the U.S. government, along with American drug consumers and gun dealers, was partly responsible for the deaths of 52 people killed in an arson attack at a casino in Monterrey.

Wearing a black suit and tie as he addressed a rattled nation, Calderon blamed his northern neighbor for the devastating attack, arguing that assault-style weapons and billions of dollars in drug profits empower the criminal organizations that he said were probably behind Thursday’s fire-bombing of the Casino Royale.

Mexico sells drugs to the whole world, not just the U.S.

Mexico also gets arms from Central America. Let me give you a little unfriendly advice Caldi. Get your facts straight before you spew, or STFU.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!

THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION'S VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall Overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.

Click here for the definitive gun haters for dummies list. I found it interesting that Obama, who keeps saying he supports second amendment rights was a member of the Joyce foundation for a large number of years. When was the last time you heard something truthful come from his lips?

If you want to learn about some the lingo used by these groups, you can find it sprinkled in the lexicon by clicking here.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Well, I finally made The Black List. I am sure Gun Shy has made some other black lists with the controversial topics that I spew on, but this black list is like a badge of honor. It is a black list that consists of the finest gun bloggers on the face of the earth, and Gun Shy is proud to be on said black list. Here is their intro:

I have a long way to go before I get all of the gun blogs listed that I want to have on this list. I could use your help, if you are willing.

If you know of a gun blog that deserves to be listed here (your blog or the blog of someone else), please post in the comments.

If you are a gun blogger that thinks this is a good gun blog list, please link to it.

And please visit all of these fine gun bloggers.

If you link with a graphic, here are two you can use.

I would advise the readers to frequent The Gun Blog Black List for the latest news on guns, because this is a clearing house for the latest as it is happening. Be sure to tell all your friends to visit it as well.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

With some of the strictest gun laws in the nation, how could this happen? Let Gun Shy clue you in for a moment. You see criminals do NOT obey gun laws. California's anal gun laws only disarm the law abiding citizens.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s unprecedented effort to keep the economy from plunging into depression included lending banks and other companies as much as $1.2 trillion of public money, about the same amount U.S. homeowners currently owe on 6.5 million delinquent and foreclosed mortgages. The largest borrower, Morgan Stanley (MS), got as much as $107.3 billion, while Citigroup took $99.5 billion and Bank of America $91.4 billion, according to a Bloomberg News compilation of data obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, months of litigation and an act of Congress...

...It wasn’t just American finance. Almost half of the Fed’s top 30 borrowers, measured by peak balances, were European firms. They included Edinburgh-based Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, which took $84.5 billion, the most of any non-U.S. lender, and Zurich-based UBS AG (UBSN), which got $77.2 billion. Germany’s Hypo Real Estate Holding AG borrowed $28.7 billion, an average of $21 million for each of its 1,366 employees.

The largest borrowers also included Dexia SA (DEXB), Belgium’s biggest bank by assets, and Societe Generale SA, based in Paris, whose bond-insurance prices have surged in the past month as investors speculated that the spreading sovereign debt crisis in Europe might increase their chances of default.

"Just remember, when you are talking to the average person, you are talking to a television set"

During the Vietnam war, the media created some major problems for the powers to be in reference to influencing popular opinion. I believe that is when the government fully recognized the need to get the media in its grasp. In other words, what we are currently experiencing as news and information is just one big psy-op in Gun Shy's personal opinion. The next time you are pondering how Obama got elected, just reference the above quote for verification.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

The title of this commentary is a parody on the title of the song Gangster Paradise, because if you examine the situation, England is full of feral thug gangsta youths, which seems to be the latest trend here in America as well. The only difference is, that our government hasn't totally pressed the American law abiding citizens into achieving the completely disarmed full victim status yet, although there are factions who are working overtime in an attempt to do so.

The lack of main stream news coverage on the Fast and Furious debacle, that left at least one American dead, has been frightening. Often called President Obama’s Watergate, Fast and Furious’ misguided premise put guns in the hands of violent criminals, cost millions of dollars, killed Border Agent Brian Terry and – if ever investigated – may expose barbaric corruption at the Department of Justice, and the White House...

...It has become increasingly obvious that the Justice Department, meaning Attorney General Eric Holder, and the White House, meaning President Barack Obama, were aware – in part or in full – about the plan. As others have mentioned, a second intention of this plan was to perpetuate the myth that American guns are flowing into Mexico, thus creating the violence on the border between the two countries. The idea being that Operation Fast and Furious could be used as a vehicle to institute greater gun control; which is to push forward the Progressive ideal of eliminating 2nd Amendment rights.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Federal officials said Thursday they've busted a drug trafficking ring involving Mexico's most powerful cartel and members of an Iraqi immigrant community in the U.S. who were caught selling illegal drugs, assault rifles, grenades and homemade explosives.

About 60 people from the Iraqi community were arrested after a six-month investigation carried out by the Drug Enforcement Administration and police in the city of El Cajon, a working-class city east of San Diego.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

A historic Colt .45-caliber, semi-automatic pistol stolen more than 30 years ago from a Medal of Honor winner in South Carolina has been returned to its rightful owner.

The gun and owner were reunited after a history buff in Medford, who bought the old handgun in an online auction last month, tracked down the retired Marine whose name is engraved on it.

"I knew if I found him and it was his gun, I couldn't keep it," said George Berry, 71, who knew little about the history of the gun when he purchased it from an auction house in Pennsylvania.

The story begins when Berry, a retired Navy warrant officer who also served in the Marine Corps, decided this summer to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning one of the historic handguns.

The readers need to check out the full story which illustrates the honor, dedication and sense of duty that has earned the men of the Corps the distinctive banner of Semper Fidelis. Nothing like a retired Marine and a former Marine demonstrating the true meaning of Esprit de Corps.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

“But that has to be balanced. You don’t have a right to just attack someone because they broke into your house. This is not the U.S.A. where your home is your castle and you have carte blanche once an intruder is inside your house.”

Yep...that's right. The Canadian government will tell you when you have the right to defend yourself. No wonder so many Canadians are flocking here.

That is how one person referred to the rioters in England. Click on the link below to read an article that examines what is really happening. This should be a warning about the path that America is on.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The above title is a brilliant quote from the Random Acts of Patriotism Blog found here.

Here is how the disarmament formula worked out for the people of Britain this week:
Police warn they could use plastic bullets to quell riots tonight as Cameron orders 16,000 officers to regain control of the capital

Prime Minister David Cameron recalls Parliament on Thursday as Government tries to quell uprising

Plastic bullets could be used for the first time in Britain if there are riots tonight

'Unprecedented' 16,000 police on duty in London - compared with just 6,000 last night

Man, 26, shot in Croydon last night dies in hospital

Man, aged in his 60s, critically ill after clashing with rioters in Ealing

England game against Netherlands at Wembley tomorrow called OFF

400% surge in 999 calls on night of violence with 20,800 dialing the emergency services in London

Birmingham Children's Hospital staff forced to barricade themselves in last night as yobs try and break in

The problem with comparing London and Korean shopkeepers is two fold. First, all the property owners and law abiding citizens have been disarmed. So unless a man is going to stab all these felons to death, there really is no self defense. And it’s hard to defend against flying molotov cocktails. And Second, the British Government has made it perfectly clear that they’re willing to incarcerate anyone who defends himself. They have proven this time and again by prosecuting the law abiding citizens who are afraid for their lives.

So in essence, the British government has effectively defanged their first responders in favor of their own police forces who are obviously inadequate to deal with this circumstance.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

The confrontation took place after a town assembly decided to arm 90 villagers and send them to threaten the group allegedly behind cattle thefts, rapes and murders, Oaxaca state's public security chief said in a statement.

The people in the house responded by opening fire first, security chief Marco Tulio Lopez said.

"When the suspected thieves saw the (villagers), the criminals shot at them, and the people responded because they were armed," he added.

Of course, the corrupt Mexican police showed up and disarmed the citizens, because after all, they can't have the citizens eliminating their payoff meal ticket.

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. -- Prince William County filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Department of Homeland Security seeking information about thousands of illegal immigrants the county has turned over to the department...

...After Carlos Martinelly Montano, 23, was charged in August 2010 with killing a Benedictine nun while driving drunk in Prince William County, county officials became concerned that DHS was releasing illegal immigrants back into the community.

Police records show that Montano was previously convicted of drunken driving, identified as an illegal immigrant, handed over to DHS for deportation, subsequently released and was then given an employment authorization card, according to the release.

Canadians have to go through that lengthy process to get a gun, however they still aren't in the clear to carry or use it...

...Joel leaves his home in a suburb just north of Toronto with a black duffle bag in hand. His 40-caliber Glock is in the bag, which he puts in his car. Joel can't just put the gun in his pocket and go to the range. There are very particular rules.

His gun has to be unloaded, trigger locked, locked in an opaque case, and the ammo is separate in its own locked compartment...

...He goes up to the counter to buy a box of ammo. Canadian law requires Joel to show the clerk his firearms license. Without it, Joel can't buy ammunition.

“[This] is an example of the kind of additional, thank you so much, paperwork I have to carry around,” he said.

The registration for his particular gun, and something called an ATT. “This is an authorization to transport a restricted or prohibited handgun and it allows me to take handguns from my house to my range, period. And from my range to my house, period.”...

He says politicians often have knee-jerk reactions to violent incidents and they push gun legislation not because it makes sense, but because gun control is an easy sell in Canada and it makes them look good.

“It's like a piece of pie and every time you take a slice of the piece of pie it gets smaller and that's what politicians do. They start, they start nibbling away at it. They take this little thing away from you, they take this little thing away from you and next thing you know there's nothing left of it,” Tony said. “That's why in the U.S. and I agree with them in the U.S. that's why, the NRA is opposed to anything and I agree with them a hundred percent on that.”

The car bombing killed four people, including two Federal Police officers, a paramedic and a doctor, on July 15, 2010.

A car packed with 10 kilos (22 pounds) of C-4 plastic explosives was apparently detonated with a cell phone on a busy street in the border city.

This highlights the absurdity of the ATF's new multi gun reporting mandate. These gangs have military grade weapons and explosives, and the ATF wants to point to something else (other than their own gun smuggling) as the problem. Your tax dollars at work.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Federal authorities are investigating whether any of the 26 AK-74 assault rifles and a Dragunov rifle stolen from the Fort Irwin Army Post has ended up in Fresno, California, a spokesman said Saturday.

Keep in mind, that these guns were stolen and then moved around in California, one of the states with the most restrictive gun laws (on law abiding citizens that is).

...and even get to write an 'assault weapons' ban such as California's Diane Feinstein when they don't even know the basic four rules (check out the trigger indexing technique here)She is correct, because that weapon WOULD be deadly in HER hands.

Thankfully, the 'assault weapon' didn't have a barrel shroud, or that would have made it super uber deadly.